England League and Cup Discussion

[wolfberries]

Home Snakey's Kent Stars
Away wolfberries
Ground St Lawrence Ground
League One Day 2.2
Date 13 Aug 21 10:00
Crowd 18,654
Weather Overcast
Pitch Slow

Toss: Snakey's Kent Stars won the toss and elected to bowl.

That ends the innings of wolfberries. Snakey's Kent Stars will have a target of 134 to chase.

Can't see us defending that, selected a youngish side today.

[spark]

S. Hodges (rfs) 4-0-21-0, A. Jirongo 30 (38b), H. Hashim 22 (49b)
End of over 18 (5 runs) - Danger Hotspurs(74-1). 91 runs required from 32 overs. RR 4.11 RRR 2.84

A lot is resting on Ten Dam grabbing a load of wickets in the next few overs if we're going to make this even slightly competitive.

[DangerDave]

S. Hodges (rfs) 4-0-21-0, A. Jirongo 30 (38b), H. Hashim 22 (49b)
End of over 18 (5 runs) - Danger Hotspurs(74-1). 91 runs required from 32 overs. RR 4.11 RRR 2.84

A lot is resting on Ten Dam grabbing a load of wickets in the next few overs if we're going to make this even slightly competitive.

My spinner taking 5 wickets was a late change - I had a young fastie in instead but decided he wouldn't be good enough... glad I made the swap... I still think that getting these runs will be tricky...

A. Ten Dam (rfm) 4-0-20-1, H. Njonjo 7 (11b), H. Mwahima 2 (4b)
End of over 23 (2 runs) - Danger Hotspurs(95-3). 70 runs required from 27 overs. RR 4.13 RRR 2.59

And much may rest on my leftie bat who has just come in.....

[spark]

Danger Hotspurs won by 7 wickets

Danger Hotspurs Ruff Royals
Batting - Top Order 12,848 13,820
Batting - Middle Order 10,971 13,171
Batting - Tail 4,015 5,027
Bowling - Seam 12,156 (40) 12,962 (30)
Bowling - Spin 13,242 (10) 15,021 (20)
Fielding/Keeping 15,227 17,298
Overall 214,870 243,868

Ratings are slightly false due to having 2 allrounders but it just felt like nothing was going to go our way today. The winning run coming off a dropped catch was typical of the day. The worst thing for us is that it looks like Relegation reprobates are almost certainly going to pick up a win against Ffoh which means we could be dragged into a relegation scrap. We may only be 8 points clear of the drop and it'll be a crucial game next week against bottom of the league.

Well done to Dave and Danger Hotspurs.

[Monsieurflibble]

Relegation reprobates Ffoh
Batting - Top Order 13,780 14,197
Batting - Middle Order 12,325 12,586
Batting - Tail 6,920 7,119
Bowling - Seam 13,016 (20) 12,952 (30)
Bowling - Spin 13,962 (30) 13,782 (20)
Fielding/Keeping 16,233 17,313
Overall 241,798 246,850

3rd win of the season and the double over the highest ranked team. Against anyone else we seem to have less backbone than Arsenal away at Stoke.

Been on the wrong end of some big ratings shocks this season and just seen Spark turned-over today which was defo not in our plan.

Certainly not too good to go down, still adrift with games running out.

[casperj]

If theres grass on the Wicket Crestfallen Sidekicks
Batting - Top Order 12,948 13,002
Batting - Middle Order 10,412 11,052
Batting - Tail 4,960 5,481
Bowling - Seam 14,785 (20) 12,990 (30)
Bowling - Spin 14,121 (30) 12,425 (20)
Fielding/Keeping 14,937 15,420
Overall 225,069 222,744

If theres grass on the Wicket won by 20 runs

After spending ages getting back to Division 2, effectively relegated already in my first seaon back. Couldn't bowl out a weak batting lineup on a Overcast/Crumbling was always going to mean that a win was unlikely. Been rating in line with most of the teams in the division, but consistently losing games where the ratings are close.

[eagles123]

Topmen v South London's Number One CC >> Match Ratings
Match Ratings
Topmen South London's Number One CC
Batting - Top Order 13,463 13,458
Batting - Middle Order 11,481 12,551
Batting - Tail 5,367 5,938
Bowling - Seam 13,864 (40) 13,482 (30)
Bowling - Spin 12,739 (10) 14,004 (20)
Fielding/Keeping 15,896 16,678
Overall 231,765 240,339

pretty dismal performance today, losing by by 161 runs. Pretty misleading ratings though, as Topmen had two international stars playing who both stood out, one with a magnificent century and the other with a 5-fer. Big game against Danger Hotspurs next week, win and we're pretty much safe, lose and we're suddenly in a thick of an intriguing relegation battle.

[wolfberries]

Snakey's Kent Stars wolfberries
Batting - Top Order 13,774 10,020
Batting - Middle Order 12,236 8,780
Batting - Tail 5,092 3,712
Bowling - Seam 13,226 (20) 9,917 (30)
Bowling - Spin 13,576 (30) 11,359 (20)
Fielding/Keeping 16,829 13,487
Overall 236,989 179,271

Result: Snakey's Kent Stars won by 6 wickets

An expected loss..

[wolfberries]

Home wolfberries
Away Inchigeela Angels
Ground wolfberries CG
League Youth Twenty20 2.2
Date 16 Aug 21 10:00
Weather (forecast) Windy
Pitch (current) Crumbling

Toss: wolfberries won the toss and elected to bat.

Still not safe from relegation, so a win is needed today.

[wolfberries]

K. Corneille (lfs) 1-0-7-0, L. Lawrence 3 (5b), S. Munday 17 (14b)
End of over 5 (7 runs) - wolfberries(24-1) RR 4.80

Not the worst start.

[wolfberries]

J. Brewer (rfm) 4-0-29-1, C. Martel 44 (21b), W. Chittleborough 21 (19b)
End of over 20 (12 runs) - wolfberries(129-5) RR 6.45

Will take that total, but can't see us defending it.

[wolfberries]

wolfberries Inchigeela Angels
Batting - Top Order 6,768 7,141
Batting - Middle Order 4,934 4,858
Batting - Tail 2,600 3,239
Bowling - Seam 6,058 (16) 7,352 (12)
Bowling - Spin 5,873 (4) 7,371 (8)
Fielding/Keeping 8,500 7,881
Overall 110,216 118,154

Result: Inchigeela Angels won by 8 wickets

Nope we couldn't.

[spark]

Ruff Royals won by 6 wickets

Ruff Royals bigsexybarry
Batting - Top Order 7,691 7,207
Batting - Middle Order 5,398 6,282
Batting - Tail 3,261 3,700
Bowling - Seam 7,897 (12) 5,891 (16)
Bowling - Spin 5,683 (8) 8,301 (4)
Fielding/Keeping 9,007 5,853
Overall 124,218 114,485

Slow pitch and we bowled first. They scored 125 with Rush taking 3 wickets for 9 runs. We won with 3 overs left after House scored 44 and Schmidt 38.

[wolfberries]

Nether Regions CC wolfberries
Batting - Top Order 11,766 12,113
Batting - Middle Order 9,434 8,124
Batting - Tail 5,334 4,569
Bowling - Seam 11,105 (16) 11,607 (8)
Bowling - Spin 11,939 (4) 11,027 (12)
Fielding/Keeping 10,624 14,666
Overall 189,040 194,950

Away today in Windy and Dry conditions. Toss: wolfberries won the toss and elected to bat.

Result: wolfberries won by 65 runs

[spark]

Ffoh Ruff Royals
Batting - Top Order 14,138 13,468
Batting - Middle Order 12,046 10,203
Batting - Tail 7,409 3,877
Bowling - Seam 13,054 (12) 10,936 (12)
Bowling - Spin 15,010 (8) 14,197 (8)
Fielding/Keeping 17,161 15,634
Overall 247,629 214,421

Ffoh won by 48 runs.

Sticky pitch; I rested players and put some youngsters in so the result was as expected.